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August 30, 2006
Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger
I read this article in the NRO, and the author actually made some interesting arguments. 'Basically,' he said, 'I am questioning the premise that [global warming] is a problem rather than an opportunity.' Does he have a point?...
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 1:32 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcement
The Periodic Table of the ScienceBlogs rolls on, with a brief description of every blog in the system. Use it to find your new favorite.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 28, 2006
Category: Announcement
It's not easy keeping track of all the ScienceBlogs. Take four dozen witty and prolific science writers, some of whom post more than once a day, spread them out across a wide range of disciplines and sub-specialties, and what you'll...
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 5:47 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 26, 2006
Category: Announcement
"My best academic experiences have been in natural history museums, exploring oddball mammals from strange places, or finding interesting aspects of entirely conventional species."
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 7:02 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 25, 2006
Category: Announcement
"Friday cat blogging," or the practice of posting something light-hearted and whimsical, is an end-of-week tradition in the blog world. What follows is an attempt at a complete guided tour of Fridays at ScienceBlogs.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 8:00 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 24, 2006
Category: Announcement
"Zuska, Goddess of Science, Empress of Engineering, and Avenging Angel of Angry Women, will tell you what everyone is thinking but is afraid to say."
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 11:26 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 22, 2006
Category: Announcement
ScienceBlogs' Dr. Charles hosts the 100th edition of the venerable weekly medical blog carnival, Grand Rounds, at The Examining Room or Dr. Charles.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 11:42 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 21, 2006
Category: Announcement
Josh Rosenau's Thoughts From Kansas settles into its new home here at ScienceBlogs.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 5:31 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcement
Read 'em while they're hot: a question for the neuroscientists in the house, the fifth edition of The Synapse, blaming Darwin for Hitler, a critical look at "traditional Chinese medicine," and Brazil achieves independence from foreign oil.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 20, 2006
Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger
The destruction of the rainforest was a hot-button topic in the early '90s, but I haven't heard anything about it in ages. Are the rainforests still being destroyed wholesale? Are they all gone? Is it still important? Is the coffee...
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 12:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 17, 2006
Category: Announcement
The "Proust Questionnaire" refers to a nineteenth-century parlor game involving a list of personal questions about the respondent's values and preferences, to be answered in rapid-fire succession. Marcel Proust didn't invent it, but he may be the most famous person...
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 12:37 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 14, 2006
Category: Announcement
Put your hands together for the 48th ScienceBlogs blog, The Scientific Indian.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 4:34 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcement
Smacking down lies about Plan B, the real Heathrow story, AIDS and responsible journalism, the innumeracy of American fundamentalists, and a reader's ethical question, answered!
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 12, 2006
Category: ScienceBlogs
A few tender morsels of readability to get your weekend started out right: "Creationist Turkey should not be let into the EU!" "The headline says, Evolution Less Accepted in U.S. Than Other Western Countries, Study Finds, but here is the...
Posted by Bryan Wolin at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 11, 2006
Category: Announcement
From a working journalist's perspective on the ground in Toronto, to a bench scientist's appraisal of the hottest research abstracts, three bloggers deliver running commentary on the 16th International AIDS Conference.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 5:32 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger
To what extent do you worry about AIDS, either with respect to yourself, your children, or the world at large?...
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 12:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcement
Ladies and germs, please say hello to the latest addition to the ScienceBlogs family circus, Molecule of the Day.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 10:59 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcement
Hot Topics on ScienceBlogs today: Too Much Information about earwax, Vonnegut's graphic-artist turn, sticking up for Joe Lieberman, blue-blocker sunglasses at night for an energetic morning, Kent Hovind in hot water again, a doctor's finest hour, and a public service announcement from Sluggy Freelance.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 10, 2006
Category: Announcement
A possible new class of antibiotic medicines, imagining the fifth dimension, gender disparity in cognition, how Americans feel about Hillary, genre fiction galore, and a truly bemusing personals ad.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 9, 2006
Category: Announcement
If you were stranded on a desert island and could only bring seven recent ScienceBlogs posts with you, these would be the ones to choose.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 8:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 8, 2006
Category: Announcement
Editor's picks for your reading pleasure on Tuesday, August 8: "Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut" Benjamin Cohen on a book that stands up after a dozen readings. "Buy Stock in Abloy" Tim Lambert reports on a report that new innovations...
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 8:08 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 7, 2006
Category: Announcement
Wake up and smell the content: the freshest must-read posts on ScieneBlogs include a detailed definition of "information," a neuroscience blog carnival, a possible algal bloom in the Charles River, two new books on the occasion of Katrina's first anniversary, and a 20,000-year-old footprint emerging from the hardened mud of southeastern Australia.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 8:07 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 2, 2006
Category: Announcement
Brand spanking new! Author and science writer David Dobbs' blog Smooth Pebbles makes its ScienceBlogs debut.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 3:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Announcement
Five red-hot reads: Why students leave science; the DDT myth that will not die; re-evaluating alchemy; the imaginary number i; a British government study finds tobacco and alcohol more harmful than marijuana, ecstasy, or LSD.
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 8:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger
What movie do you think does something admirable (though not necessarily accurate) regarding science? Bonus points for answering whether the chosen movie is any good generally....
Posted by Katherine Sharpe at 7:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 1, 2006
Category: Announcement
Today's picks: Testosterone and euphoria, the influence of one's first few years on lifelong health, the FDA approves Plan B for over-the-counter sales, "critical analysis of evolution" is a Trojan Horse with creationism inside, instant facial analysis tells you what celebrity you resemble, and more.
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